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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I can download vector linux at the library except it is very complicated 
to get their O/S to recognize our USB flash drive, and involves going into 
WORD and it took the librarian 15 minutes to figure out.  A simpler way is 
to shut down Windows and restart it with the flash drive inserted but the 
librarian at the local branch said that was forbidden (the main branch 
told us to do this), so I doubt we would be allowed to boot from the USB 
linux floppy boot disk either.


Back to another suggestion, using pbmtolj to print formatted text instead 
of Abiword/gs/lpr.

I found rtf2ps-1.0.tar.gz to convert Abiword rtf output to ps.  It is 
based on the Ted wordprocessor, which we had for BL2.  Is it still around? 
It was very slow and heavily mouse-based.

The only pstopnm or pstopbm I could find required gs (and probably lots of 
fonts).

xdpf has a pdftopbm that works in BL3 if you give it a minimal set of gs 
fonts (without gs itself) and a modified configuration file to point at 
these fonts.

I need a pstopdf that is not gs-based, or a wordprocessor that outputs ps 
or pdf.

I found TextMaker for Linux 2002, free for linux, 14MB download (source 
code? - the power went out as I was investigating), that I could download 
at the library.  It produces pdf.  So does OpenOffice (200MB).  TextMaker 
can import (export?) WORD .doc files and works in 17 languages.  Also 
available for Windows and BSD.  The downloadable version is a trial/demo 
and the cost is $50.

I will report if this is promising.


On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, James Miller wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:39:21PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> > > No, you aren't forced to install Windows.  You've got
> > > plenty of other options (DSL, VectorLinux, etc.).
> >
> > I don't want to learn another linux just to put on other people's
> > computers.  I am trying to share what I already know.  BL supports our
>
> Just for the record, Vector, like BL, is based on Slackware. The learning 
> curve would therefore be alot shallower than
> with DSL (which is based on Knoppix/Debian).
>
> James
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